Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface to the Revised Edition 1
4. General Introduction 3
5. SECTION I ASTROLOGY
6. Introduction 15
7. Objections to Astrology 18
8. The Strange Case of Astrology 23
9. On Dismissing Astrology and Other Irrationalities 28
10. Spheres of Influence 37
11. Astrology: A Critical Review 51
12. Suggested Readings 82
13. SECTION II SCIENCE or PSEUDOSCIENCE? THE PROBLEM of DEMARCATION
14. Introduction 87
15. Winning through Pseudoscience 92
16. Science: Conjectures and Refutations 104
17. Demarcating Genuine Science from Pseudoscience 111
18. Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? 123
19. The Popperian versus the Kuhnian Research Programme 131
20. Kuhn, Popper, and the Normative Problem of Demarcation 140
21. The Conservatism of "Pseudoscience" 156
22. Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos: A Crisis of Modern Intellect 170
23. SECTION III PARAPSYCHOLOGY
24. Introduction 183
25. Parapsychology: An Empirical Science 187
26. Coincidence and Explanation 205
27. Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience? 214
28. Philosophical Difficulties with Paranormal Knowledge Claims 232
29. Precognition and the Paradoxes of Causality 243
30. Second Report on a Case of Experimenter Fraud 253
31. Suggested Readings 264
32. SECTION IV QUANTUM MYSTICISM
33. Introduction 267
34. Conflicting Notes from Einstein and Bohr 272
35. The Unity of All Things 274
36. Einstein Doesn't Like It 285
37. The Yogi and the Quantum 302
38. Quantum Mysteries for Anyone 315
39. Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics 326
40. Suggested Readings 350
41. SECTION V OTHER APPROACHES TO THE OCCULT
42. Introduction 353
43. Notes on Mysticism and Nitrous Oxide 355
44. Tacit Assumptions 361
45. Scientific and Other Values 370
46. Suggested Readings 385
47. Name Index 387
48. Subject Index 393